i suffered from depression since i was 11 years old i had developed psoriasis
on my elbows and down my arms and from my knees and like on my ankles um just from
kind of the stress of everything um i you know tried different medicines you know nothing really
was helpful and it was just something that i thought i was going to live with you know i tried
the happy lamps tried all those different things you know hoping that something was going to help
in 2017 i moved here to denver and i started with a new mentor and i was in her office one
day hysterically crying saying how much i hated feeling the way that i felt and wish i could
feel something different and she recommended that i pick up dr joe's book changing the
habits of being yourself i really connected with it and i started the meditations just
started with you know 20 minutes a day just the morning meditations and continued going
for over a year and a half constantly looking to see you know when is the next fancy treat i in
that time span gave birth to my daughter i had a very very hard quite terrible pregnancy
i developed a thyroid disorder i had gained a bunch of weight and was just really um unhappy uh
and and was having a hard time even though i had you know so many beautiful things in my life
after that year and a half of of doing dr joe's work um i started to realize that you know what
my my psoriasis doesn't look quite as bad as you know it used to i haven't really had any of those
flare-ups that i used to have and you know when was the last time that like i had to like take
like a full week off because i was depressed like it really like had been it'd been some time so
you know i was able to really see even before i made it to the advanced retreat that things were
getting better i came to cancun in february of uh 2021 and i said you know what like i i feel so
much better like i don't i don't know if i i need my thyroid medication but you know my doctor was
obviously skeptical and and you know i you know consulted with a few different people and they
said you know why don't you just keep taking it a few times a week you know if you know you're not
sure you know if they're not sure about how your blood tests are looking it's like okay
no problem so i went to the um denver event and i um was in one of the
blessing of the energy center meditations and i had a golden light come with a ton of warmth
hanging out first in my heart and then in my throat um before moving up and i got a voice
that said you know you don't have to worry about you know your thyroid anymore like you
don't have to worry about that anymore and actually you know you don't need
you never need to worry about anything there's never a reason to be worried about anything
there's no reason to fear uh and that was um the end of the meditation um and i have um my um
you know my my official blood test coming up so i think the point is is that you know they
you know everybody always told me you know you can't like you know there's you can't fix a
thyroid issue that's not something that you know people do but somehow like it is something that
i've done and it is something that i do and you know i've fixed my depression and i've fixed my
psoriasis it was definitely meditation um but i think more importantly i think it was the
sticking with it i think that you know even though um there were times last year when i stopped you
know because i you know went unconscious and i returned back to kind of old habits
um you know just still getting back on the horse even though i had stopped for a while and knowing
how important it was and you know knowing that you know my family was seeing a change in me
i think that's what primed me for being able to really have the impact and the healing that i've
had at these um retreats is the fact that you know i continued on with the work and kept doing that
work and the changing boxes being able to really visualize that specific thing that one thing that
you know if that changed tomorrow that's the thing that really felt like
it would really bring you up to the next level and even if you were short on time at that time and
you needed to to make it up you know having you know 35 minutes to really focus on what you needed
to focus on um is my favorite part for sure having a way that intersection between science and you
know spirituality like i know that he doesn't say word chakra he doesn't say they're like kundalini
you know breath you know but i i recognize that like these are old teachings that he's modernizing
in a way where we're able to digest it right his thing right you know science is the is the
modern language of mysticism like i think that's that's perfect like that it makes so much sense